Out of curiosity, I was looking for all the information that I could find on LAME's Q switch when using CBR. Other than:-q 0: Highest quality, very slow-q 9: Poor quality, but fast

I wanted to know a little more of what was happening with each setting (without having to go into the source code myself). So I used the verbose flag, and then compared the output and encoding times. I did a few tests and decided to post the results here in case someone else was curious too. All tests where done with -b 320 (CBR 320). If someone has more insight, any information would be welcome.